Joseph Hornblower (1696? – 1762) was an English engineer, a pioneer of steam power.
Joseph Hornblower was born in 1696 in Staffordshire, England.[1]
In 1725 he was engaged to install a Newcomen engine at Wheal Rose, near Truro. He settled in Salem, Cornwall in 1748.[2]
Jonathan Hornblower and Josiah Hornblower were his sons by his first wife Rebecca Haywood whom he married in Netherton, Worcestershire in 1716. He died in Bristol, having had 7 sons and a daughter altogether by his two wives .